Vengeance As a Policy in Afrikanderland a Plea for a New Departure
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Bis- marck only annexed the country, under pressure of public opinion, when he found that we were unprepared to accept the responsibilities inseparable from the control we had claimed without any serious endeavour to make it good. Without Walwich Bay, which we reserved in dog-in-the-manger fashion, the country is certainly valueless. Probably it would be valueless even with Walwich Bay. At any rate Germany has made no serious attempt at colonisation, and the idea is probably correct that she on...ly keeps her hand upon the country as a pawn in a greater game. She has no apparent interest for standing in the way of England in that part of the world unless she contemplates the possibility of disputing with England, at some distant period, her supremacy in South Africa as a whole, and that would seem to be a contingency too remote to enter into the sphere of practical politics. She has, on the other hand, a very real interest in the creation of a settled order under which her subjects would enjoy 1 68 VENGEANCE AS A POLICY advantages and opportunities not inferior to those which British subjects would themselves enjoy.
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